Sadly, the new Summit has been cold for a few months as the hearth behind it gets rebuilt. I am continuing on an idea I posted a few months back. The stove is in an interior corner and it had a 7' 45 degree false wall behind it. New code made me push that wall back a few feet. I could have just removed it and finished up the 90 degree wall, but instead thought to try a few things.
The new wall is just 42 inches wide and instead of the old rough brick, I'm using 3/4 inch oak plywood with large fir cross sections mounted as decorations. We had an 8' diameter (2' bark, 6' wood) fir tree logged (now I regret that!) and I cut a few slabs at crosscut from the stump. Parts of this and a few 30" cuts will mount on the oak.
The other aspect is I am opening an interior heat channel to the master bedroom. The angled wall will be open on top and bottom and there will be a door in the bedroom to open up the air access to the "triangular room" made by the false wall. Cold air can fall down to the stove and the stove warmed air will trickle into the MB. We can close this channel when we want to block noise. That's the thought anyway.
I'm posting pics of the slabs, ran out of space, will post the stove area and the MB in a reply.
- Bill
The new wall is just 42 inches wide and instead of the old rough brick, I'm using 3/4 inch oak plywood with large fir cross sections mounted as decorations. We had an 8' diameter (2' bark, 6' wood) fir tree logged (now I regret that!) and I cut a few slabs at crosscut from the stump. Parts of this and a few 30" cuts will mount on the oak.
The other aspect is I am opening an interior heat channel to the master bedroom. The angled wall will be open on top and bottom and there will be a door in the bedroom to open up the air access to the "triangular room" made by the false wall. Cold air can fall down to the stove and the stove warmed air will trickle into the MB. We can close this channel when we want to block noise. That's the thought anyway.
I'm posting pics of the slabs, ran out of space, will post the stove area and the MB in a reply.
- Bill